#team gb diving

[chicoespecial2022]

Team GB Diving

Daniel Goodfellow (L); Anthony Harding (R)

[athletic-collection]

Team Great Britain diving--(from left) Ross Haslam, Noah Williams, Matthew Dixon, Jordan Houlden, James Heatly, and Anthony Harding

[puttingthepuffintohufflepuff]

[lxndonorris]

All those GB divers and their onlyfans will be the death of me.

[jude-thedude98]

That moment in life when you find out YOUR FAVORITE DIVER AND SWIMMER IS BORN ON THE SAME DAY AS YOU AND YOU FEATHERLY FALL INTO A BIG POOL OF GUSHHHHHHH!

AHHHHHHHHH!

I LOVE JACK LAUGHER!

I love you Jack Laugher!

Please be mine and I will be yours too!

that moment... #youdoveintomyheart

Be my...

#everydayvalentine

I will promise to...

#beyourpool

If you be my...

#diver

You can...

#swimwithme

In the...

#poolsoflife

They say there are plenty of fish in the sea well I just found someone

#divingintheoceanofmyheart

#waterrunsdeep

#aquariusbabies

#january30thtwins

[tiedsh0es]

I will defend TD being in TPOT with my entire life you guys are so boring if you think she should be gone just because she's mean and causes problems

Also if you think she should be gone because she's already been in the other seasons what about Pin or Coiny or GB who have been in every season and are STILL in bfdia! her being in previous seasons does not make her less deserving of being in TPOT. She's not even on a team so it's not like shes taking a spot your favourite character could have had in voting. (maybe you say its unfair that she has plot armour but GOD its a fictional show fairity is based on what the creators write for her)

Also she's always had powers this isn't a new thing, but I love them going into it more! AND I loved seeing her push Eraser off the bridge this episode because you know what she did the EXACT same thing to flower. She always chooses the chance to win over allyship. but her being like that was never really discussed its just a part of her. and I would love to see TPOT dive into her character more! Which I imagine they will, otherwise why bring her back.

Yea she's been in a lot of seasons but she's also rarely looked into as a character, I want to see where TPOT is going with this shes so interesting I love her,

Actually I have more to say because when she 'betrays' flower let it also be known that Flower was not listening to her in that EP. Girl is getting dragged around, she looks so bored shopping is not her thing. And now in TPOT she is quite literally alone. There is no one on her team, she can't take any chances. Characteres also have consistently ingored her or talked over her as she can't talk. She's doing her best. I think she just doesn't really know how to talk to people, maybe that's why she seems genuinely regretful with Gelatin when she realizes he's hurt by her. Sighhh I can't wait to see where they go with her.

[meetinginsamarra]

My Fave Sherlock BBC AUs: Sports fics

Around mid-month I´ll do a fic rec list with my fave AU genres or tropes. Summaries are taken from OP´s on AO3.

Not featuring ballet because there is a separate rec list.

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“Sticking the Landing” by SweetMandolins

https://archiveofourown.org/works/8797708

John Watson, Captain of Team GB’s gymnastics squad is confident and primed for his third and final Olympics. Disappointed in London with a shoulder injury putting paid to his Olympic dream, can he secure an Olympic gold finish before retirement? Meanwhile, Sherlock Holmes has other problems. Men’s Rhythmic Gymnastics is the newest Olympic sport, but a series of peculiar accidents both on and off the floor have taken out some of the competitors. Does something more sinister lurk under the spangles and spandex? Can Sherlock solve the mystery in time to deliver a flawless ball routine? And does something more valuable than medals await the boys in Rio?

“Thermocline” by J_Baillier @jbaillier​

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22068541

John "Five Oceans" Watson — technical dive instructor, dive accident analyst and weapon of mass seduction — meets recluse professor of maritime archaeology Holmes. As they head out to a remote archipelago off the coast of Guatemala to study and film its shipwrecks for a documentary, will sparks fly or fizzle out?

“Summit Fever” by J_Baillier @jbaillier​

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16143296

After graduating from medical school, John Watson followed his heart to the Himalayas. Ten years later, he's a haunted cynic working for his ex-lover's trekking and mountaineering company. Will leading an expedition to Annapurna I — the most lethal of all the world's highest mountains — shake John out of his reverie, and who is the mystery client added to the group at the last minute?

“Passion connected” by songlin

https://archiveofourown.org/works/14298093

(This is unfinished but imo still worth a read!)

John Watson retired after an injury pulled him out of the 2010 Winter Olympics. He's resigned himself to living out his days sharpening skates in Catawissa, Pennsylvania, fighting with his drunk sister and watching his number of students dwindle away.

Sherlock Holmes was banned from competition for a doping violation he did not commit before the 2014 Winter Olympics. Ever since, he has whiled away his time on odd jobs as skater after skater fires him as a coach. He no longer dreams of proving his innocence and making his comeback.

Uphill by scullyseviltwin @scullyseviltwin​

https://archiveofourown.org/works/1179526

Sherlock Holmes is striving for gold in this, his fourth and final Olympics as a downhill Alpine racer.

“Working on the Edges” by earlgreytea68 @earlgreytea68​

https://archiveofourown.org/works/1185555

No matter where you put Sherlock and John, they click. Including the Winter Olympics.

“Tennis-series” by JupiterAsh (7fics) 

https://archiveofourown.org/series/16847

starting with “A Study in Winning”

John and Sherlock are professional tennis players and it’s Wimbledon. One is a broken almost was at the end of his career, the other an arrogant rising star tipped for greatness. It should have been a straightforward tournament. It really should have been. How were they to know that a chance encounter would change everything?

“Gimme Shelter” by SinceWhenDoYouCallMe_John @sincewhendoyoucallme-john​ 

https://archiveofourown.org/works/11578941

(also published as “The sea ain´t mine alone” by C.L. Beaumont)

All John Watson wants is the feeling of a freshly waxed surfboard under his feet and the hot California sun baking down onto his back. To finally go pro in the newly formed world of professional surfing and leave the dark memories of his past behind him as he rips across the face of a towering blue barrel. To lounge beside the beach bonfire every evening with an ice cold beer tucked into the cool sand beside him and listen to Pink Floyd and the Doors while the saltwater dries in his sun bleached hair.

That's all he wants, that is, until the hot young phenom taking Oahu and the Hawaiian shores by storm steps up next to him in the sand in the second round of the 1976 International Surf Competition.

“Slipstream” by khorazir @khorazir

​https://archiveofourown.org/works/15975143

It’s going to be the last Tour de France for professional cyclist John Watson. Despite the hardships of cycling more than 3000 kilometres in three weeks, in blistering heat and torrential rain, over dangerous cobblestones in northern France and the mountains of the Alps and the Pyrenees, battling thirst, hunger, injury and exhaustion, not to mention bitchy rivals, doping allegations, and the ever scoop-hungry press, he is going to enjoy the ride, damn it. That’s what John keeps telling himself – until he meets his new teammate, Sherlock Holmes, who adds a whole new list of problems as well as an extra dose of excitement to John’s life

“The Bang and the Clatter” by earlgreytea68 @earlgreytea68​

https://archiveofourown.org/works/744242

Sherlock Holmes is a pitcher and John Watson is a catcher. No, no, no, it's a baseball AU.

“Boyfriend Material” (-series) by PoppyAlexander  @fuckyeahfightlock​

https://archiveofourown.org/works/8857168

Boston Brawlers' team captain John Watson longs for two things: a championship before he retires, and a boyfriend. Assigned to room with goaltender Sherlock Holmes--known around the league as both a genius and a "weird dude"--on Brawlers' roadtrips, John discovers the things they have in common that lead to an easy friendship and a convenient arrangement.

Slow-burn, adversaries-to-friends-to-lovers, romantic comedy.

[master-john-uk]

cris mears foto

I assume you are referring to Team GB Olympic diver Christopher James Mears MBE.

Chris was born in Reading, Berkshire, UK on 7th February 1993.

He began diving at an early age and competed in several junior competitions. In January 2009 while training in Sydney for the Olympic Youth Festival he suffered a ruptured spleen, at the same time as unknowingly suffering from glandular fever. At one point doctors only gave Chris a 5% chance of survival, and he was told that he would never dive again. Just eighteen months later Chris competed in the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

At the 2016 Rio Olympics Chris and Jack Laugher won Gold medals in the Men's 3m Synchronised Diving event. The pair won several more medals in events over the following two years.

In 2019 Chris announced that he was retiring from competitive diving to concentrate on a career in music production.

Naked photos. Chris is certainly not shy! Over the last ten years he has posed for several erotic (not explicit) photographs, and has been featured in several magazines. He has always been publicly supportive of both male and female athletes who want to be open about their sexuality, including fellow diver Tom Daley.

In 2017 some very explicit photos, and a video of appeared on the internet which claim to be of Chris Mears. I do not know if they are genuine.

Chris is very aware that he has a huge gay following. Recently he has been one of a number of British divers to start sharing photos on Just-For-Fans (a pay to view website.) All of the divers say that the content that they share will be SFW... although one Chris's former diving colleagues has posted some photographs that leave very little to the imagination!

[perfectwerewolfeagle]

Ben Cutmore, 21, GB diving team

[chicoespecial2022]

Jack Laugher in Speedos 👌

Commonwealth Games Birmingham, United Kingdom 🇬🇧

[athletic-collection]

Team GB Diving---(from left) Matty Lee, Noah Williams, Tom Daley, Dan Goodfellow, and Matthew Dixon

[qnewslgbtiqa]

Golden boy Tom Daley confirmed for fifth and final Olympics

New Post has been published on https://qnews.com.au/golden-boy-tom-daley-confirms-fifth-and-final-olympics/

Golden boy Tom Daley confirmed for fifth and final Olympics

Tom Daley will compete at a record fifth Olympics in Paris after he was confirmed in Team GB’s diving team.

The out gay diver finally won gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, and took time away from the sport.

But late last year Tom made a big comeback and at Paris he’ll compete in the 10m synchronised platform event with Noah Williams (below).

The pair won silver at the World Championships in February following Tom’s return last December.

The two British athletes also won gold at a World Cup event in Berlin in March.

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Tom Daley’s son wants to see him dive

Tom Daley has said a large part of his return to competitive diving was for one reason. He said his six-year-old son Robert Ray wants to see his dad dive at the Olympics.

In Tokyo, Tom won his first gold and also has three bronze medals in his sport. He was just 14 at his first Olympics in 2008.

If Tom wins another medal, he’ll join a small group of five-time Olympic medalists, Outsports reported.

That group includes out gay diving champion Greg Louganis, who has four Olympic golds and one silver.

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More out Olympians:

Tom Daley calls out anti-gay countries at Commonwealth Games

Kiwi rower Robbie Manson qualifies for Paris Olympics

Aussie climber Campbell Harrison qualifies for Olympics, kisses boyfriend

Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black welcome their second child

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[northmarch]

In light of Herora-nuva’s most recent deep dive videos, I figured now was a good time to write out and share my own thoughts regarding the concept of Destiny in Bionicle. Specifically Destiny as a cosmic force and how it might tie into time travel and the multiverse.

First off, the term Destiny in Bionicle seems to refer to multiple distinct things.

- Destiny as a philosophical ideal.

- Destiny as a pre-programmed ‘mission’ or purpose set by the GBs or MN.

- and Destiny as a cosmic force.

The first has already been covered in greater detail than I could have given by Herora-nuva.

The functionality of the second is fairly explicitly explained in canon (through word of Greg) though I do want to add my interpretation that ‘programmed’ or ‘assigned’ destiny is more, circumstantial. Destiny responds to and can be altered by different situations. For example there were likely dozens of Matoran in Metru Nui with the potential to become Toa, but the Toa Metru, that specific team, were the best suited for the particular scenario they found themselves in. Similarly, it was the Toa Mata’s assigned destiny to awaken the great spirit, but if everything had gone according to plan, they never would have been needed.

The main thing I want to talk about now though is the third kind of destiny.

My personal interpretation of Cosmic Scale Destiny, is that this is the universe’s way of dealing with temporal paradoxes and maintaining a stable timeline.

It has been said before that the Bionicle story team didn’t want to include time travel in the Bionicle lore/story because it was just, too messy. However the concept obviously did make its way into canon, most obviously in the form of the Kanohi Mohtrek. The mask of Time Duplication worn by Makuta Bitil in 2008, which allowed the bearer to summon versions of themselves from the past. BA10 Time Trap also featured examples of time travel in the Krattana vision and potentially the damaged Vahi itself.

Specifically regarding the Mohtrek and how it sidesteps the issue of creating a paradox with each use;

(I’ll address Greg’s implication of an infinite multiverse later.)

If a grandfather paradox is created, the bearer (source of the paradox) is simply removed from the timeline… while a new timeline is created where they never existed. It seems a bit redundant but ok.

Yellow - Original timeline.

Green - Bitil stops existing.

Red - Bitil never existed.

This could also address the other major talking point of the Mohtrek: ‘If physical injures are retained when a duplicate is sent back, could a message be sent back in time by carving it into your own armour?’ I believe the answer to that would depend on whether or not you’d be creating a grandfather paradox. If the message is inconsequential, then yes, absolutely. If the message would actually alter the course of history or your personal timeline (ie; you never send the message in the first place) then the universes respond would be the same as if you’d died. Both scenarios create the same paradox.

One universe where the paradox occurred.

One self constant universe where the Paradox never occurred.

Which is the main timeline is a matter of perspective, though I am inclined to see the more consistent timeline as the primary one.

Cycling back to the infinite multiverse issue. In the above QaA Greg suggests that any decision (or chance outcome) would result in multiple new timelines, collectively realising every possibility. An infinite and infinitely expanding multiverse. This is both incredibly depressing and inconsistent with some of the core themes and ideas of Bionicle by rendering both Destiny and Free Will utterly meaningless.

Thankfully Greg has also explicitly dismissed the idea of an ‘Infinite Bionicle Multiverse’ by dismissing the idea that the Bionicle Multiverse could contain any version of the; Transformers, Hero Factory, Earth arg etc. franchises. As an infinite multiverse would logically have to contain.

(Unless the Bionicle Multiverse actively culls timelines which diverge too far, similar to the Nasuverse)

My conclusion therefore is that the universe must require a particular catalyst in order to split the timeline. Thankfully the Mohtrek gives us the perfect catalyst. Temporal Paradoxes. Specifically a Grandfather Paradox.

Now, I’m not suggesting that the Toa Empire exists because someone traveled back in time to help Tuyet. But ‘something’ happened to alter the course of history in such a way that a paradox was created. Actually that ties into another, significantly more speculative headcanon I have regarding the Vahi that I’ll really have to write down one day. To sum up, my theory is that the Vahi’s very existence is one massive, unstable Bootstrap Paradox.

A causal loop wherein the mask has no true beginning or end as it effectively causes its own existence.

The Vahi;

- Arrives from future - exists - breaks - reforged as disks - reforged as mask - exists - sent to past -

Yellow - Vahi timeline.

Green - main timeline.

Red - divergent timelines.

(Please forgive the inconsistent colour keys on these diagrams).

Destiny is effectively the force which ensures causal loops (aka bootstrap paradox) remain stable and consistent. But Because some of these loops aren’t stable, we get slight differences and inconsistencies which could have cascading effects. If an event occurs which would break that loop, those events are shuffled off into their own timeline while the ‘main’ timeline remains constant or is nudged back on course.

I’m going to leave it there for tonight cuz it’s late and I have to work tomorrow.

[ssaalexblake]

The weirdest thing I learnt from The Meg movies was that Jason Statham was on the GB national diving team once upon a time.

[shereen1]

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NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

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NETFLIX CANADA KILL ME IF YOU DARE (PL) SUNDERLAND ‘TIL I DIE (Season 3) (GB) TAYLOR TOMLINSON: HAVE IT ALL

NHL HOCKEY (SNEast/SNOntario) 7:00pm: Lightning vs. Bruins (SNPacific) 8:30pm: Canucks vs. Chicago (TSN2) 7:00pm: Ducks vs. Habs (TSN4) 7:00pm: Blues vs. Leafs (TSN5) 7:00pm: Blue Jackets vs. Sens (SNWest) 9:00pm: Red Wings vs. Oilers

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THIS HOUR HAS 22 MINUTES (CBC) 8:00pm

MARY MAKES IT EASY (CTV Life) 8:00pm: Doughn't Go Bakin' My Heart

SON OF A CRITCH (CBC) 8:30pm: Mark is elated to find he has not one, but two valentines; juggling two girls turns out to be harder than he expected, and so instead of two plus-ones, Mark ends up with none.

COMFORT FOOD WITH SPENCER WATTS (CTV Life) 8:30pm: Spencer creates dressed up comfort food with: chicken kiev with thai red curry butter and lemongrass whipped potatoes, sauce covered steak Diane with king mushrooms and Morroccan spiced butternut squash puff pastry.

ONE MORE TIME (CBC) 9:00pm: When bed bugs invade One More Time on the same day the store is being profiled by the local newspaper, the team must band together to prevent any bad press and save the store from a PR nightmare.

RUN THE BURBS (CBC) 9:30pm: On Halloween, the Phams face a choice: cling to old traditions or embrace new ideas of family fun.

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